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Capoeira and Candomble: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience (in English)
Floyd Merrell (Author)
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Markus Wiener Publishing Inc
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Capoeira and Candomble: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience (in English) - Floyd Merrell
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Synopsis "Capoeira and Candomble: Conformity and Resistance Through Afro-Brazilian Experience (in English)"
Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. The two are closely interconnected. Capoeira and Candomblé have for centuries made up a coherent form of Brazilian life, despite having been suppressed by the dominant cultures. But times have changed: nowadays Capoeira is popular with all classes in Brazil, and has spread to North America and Europe.For Western audiences, Capoeira performance and Candomblé services are fun to watch and participate in, but difficult to understand. Both have apparently familiar elements, but this seeming conformity with the dominant cultures was for four hundred years a strategy of resistance by Brazilian slaves. The author offers his own reflections about Capoeira and Candomblé, combining personal experiences with anecdotes, historical facts, and research as well as religious and philosophical interpretations, both Western and non-Western. The result is informative and entertaining, a description and analysis that allows readers to get a feeling, understanding, and even experience of the spirit of Capoeira and Candomblé.
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